Cool Poetry

Poetry is more than just written words and rhyming. Poetry is also visual art and has a lot to do with imagination and the power to take real-life things and make them mean something to someone, taking struggles and hardship and making others who don't understand that understand, even if it's just in a 2nd perspective. Also, putting one's imagination into words and letting the reader or listener picture everything in their own way. Poetry means a lot to a lot of people. Here is a poem from a book I read a lot as a child, by Shel Silverstein, this poem has the same name as the book. It's called where the sidewalk ends.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends

and before the street begins,

and there the grass grows soft and white,

and there the sun burns crimson bright,

and there the moon-bird rests from his flight

to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

and the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow

and watch where the chalk-white arrows go

to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes, we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,

the place where the sidewalk ends.